Up for Debate: Media response to Newtown tragedy

Created 12/18/2012 - 12:14am

What are your reactions to how the media reported the fatal Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings? How do you feel about the inevitable reports that name and show the alleged suspects in such mass shootings, particularly when it's done so alongside phrases that essentially rank the events based on deadliness? Is that an acceptable media practice or does it just encourage others to try to do worse? Finally, do social media sites — Twitter, Facebook and others — help or hurt the public discourse in such cases?